Introduction

　　As a Customer Success Manager (Manager) in IBM you'll apply your strong foundation of technology expertise to hire and cultivate high performing teams made up of diverse, exceptional CSM talent.

　　A true change-agent, you'll hire and continually develop high performing teams who get IBM's products and services adopted, post-sale, to continually meet your customers' business goals.

　　Combining c-suite gravitas with developer-level approachability, you'll lead your teams as they co-create with clients to fully realise the value of their existing IBM products, whilst expanding their adoption of next-gen solutions from across IBM's wider portfolio.

　　Excellent onboarding training will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always connected to a wider team, you'll be surrounded by other leaders and colleagues. People who are always willing to help and be helped as you scale your territory, with and through your team, as they compel clients to continually invest in IBM's people, products, and services.

　　Your Role and Responsibilities

　　Customer Success careers in IBM might be different to what you're used to. In addition to the people skills and business acumen often associated with this position, IBM CSMs are also Architects. People with a deep understanding of technical complexities. They can quickly understand clients' hard-to-understand technology issue and communicate them back in an easy-to-understand way. As such, they require growth-minded, radically candid leaders, who can lead and support them technically, commercially, and behaviourally.

　　As an experienced leader of technical, customer-facing talent, you'll help your teams showcase IBM's solutions. Providing direction for use-case identification, solution architecture design, and MVP builds you'll help your teams guide clients through their existing tech stack compatibilities, and changes needed to realise the full value of expanding and /or renewing their adoption of IBM's solutions.

　　Your primary responsibilities will include:

　　Team Leadership and Development: Hire, nurture, and develop a team of exceptional client-facing technical talent.

　　Solution Validation: Collaborate with CSMs and clients to validate solutions with MVPs that deliver value, leading to production readiness.

　　Establishing Trusted Client Relationships: Create and maintain enduring, trusted relationships at technical levels within clients, including CIOs, CTOs, Developers, Data Scientists and Architects, establishing IBM as an essential partner.

　　CSM Team Coaching: Coach CSM teams with clarity and conviction to ensure they fully understand how to perform their roles successfully and achieve their KPIs.

　　Required Technical and Professional Expertise

　　Proven Leadership and Credibility: Seasoned technical leadership with a proven track record, along with experience in coaching CSM teams to drive the adoption of complex, enterprise-grade technology solutions.

　　Prior experience in leading analytics team

　　Expertise in Deal and Situational Coaching: Demonstrable mastery of deal and situational coaching, while fostering a high-performing, growth-minded, and candid culture.

　　Practical Skills in Technology Domains: Possess deep, practical, and applied skills in one of the following areas: Cloud, Data and AI, Automation, Integration, or Security (with understanding across a broad selection, including their interconnectivities).

　　Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

　　Diverse Technology Solution Expertise: Experience working with a wide range of technology solutions, including Cloud, Data & AI, and more (training in IBM's products will be provided).

　　Sales Experience in Software and Cloud: Proven experience in software and Cloud sales, including software, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and more.

　　About Business UnitIBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company's Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

　　Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

　　Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

　　Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

　　Are you ready to be an IBMer?

　　About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

　　Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

　　Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.